If you haven’t been living under a rock, then you might already know about the ongoing antitrust lawsuit that Epic Games filed against Apple last year. Ahead of the beginning of the trial on May 3, Epic filed a brief that contains some extracts of statements from Apple employees regarding the development of iMessage for Android. Yeah, Apple did think of bringing iMessage to Android. But, as revealed, Apple intentionally did not develop an Android version of iMessage to prevent users from switching platforms.
Now, these statements were brought up by Epic Games to show Apple’s monopolistic strategies to retain its users and trap them in their vast ecosystem of products and services. And well, that’s the reason – greed and fear of losing market share – are the primary reasons for iMessage not being available on Android. And it will probably never be available on its rival OS.
